In this science fiction techno-thriller, former Ministry of Defence employee Nick
Pope blends what he knows about political decision-making and war-fighting with knowledge
and experience gained on the British Government's UFO project. The result is an alien
invasion novel packed with insights into real-world strategy, tactics and hardware,
making for a terrifyingly real account. The tagline for this controversial book was
"The truth can only be told as fiction", and this led to much speculation in the
UFO and conspiracy theory community, especially when it emerged that the manuscript
of Operation Thunder Child had needed to go through the government’s security clearance
procedure.